anticanonical

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English

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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ canonical.

Adjective

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anticanonical (comparative more anticanonical, superlative most anticanonical)

  1. Opposing or challenging a canon.
    • 2012, Jane Gallop, Polemic: Critical or Uncritical, page 32:
      When critical reading is established as a global language of value, such maneuvers become necessary to rescue texts for any canon, even the anticanonical canon.
  2. (mathematics, not comparable) Of or relating to the inverse bundle corresponding to a canonical bundle.